Frank: (00:00)Hey, what's going on everybody? I'm so sorry that I have literally fallen off the map. I think this last episode that I did was probably upwards of almost two months ago. So let me, let me first start by saying I'm sorry and that it actually happened for a very good reason. So over the last two months, it has been a whirlwind of awesomeness. And why I'm saying that is because we as a family have bonded in such a great way that the last two months I wouldn't give it back for a thing in the world. All right. We have been able to spend very good quality time together. We actually have decided as a family to restart homeschooling. And so that was one of the things that has kind of taken some time. And then there was a lot of other things that were related to both, uh, you know, the business of unconventional wellness as well as me helping with a project that we've got going on here in my home state. Frank: (00:59)So I apologize. But from now on, you will be receiving these great pieces of content from me every single week. And we will not let you back down. Okay. So I apologize for that. But welcome to the unconventional wellness. I am your host Frank Ritz. I am a service disabled combat veteran of the US army in which I had the pleasure of serving for over a decade in the U s army. And now I am home as they retired, uh, medically retired, uh, veteran, uh, oh here with my family on our wonderful farm in western North Carolina. Uh, where we raise actually here to animals. I'll tell you a little bit about the farm really quick, is that we, uh, we raise animals for a sustainable purpose. And what does that even mean? Well, a couple of years ago we, we figured that we wanted to start making the move toward organic food, right? Because you really are what you eat. Frank: (01:55)And so my wife and I made the conscientious decision to say, let's start moving toward nonprocessed organic food. Well, considering how crazy we are, we decided to take that one step further and we wanted to not only be able to go to the store and purchase organic food, but we said, you know what, we're going to just start creating in ourself. And so, uh, to folks pretty much born in the city decided that we were going to go ahead and go start a homestead. And, uh, and it's, and it's not been without its extremely hilarious moments and it's a really significant setbacks. But you know what? We just keep pushing on and now we can, uh, sit here and say that, uh, out of all of those experiences every single day, we've become even better farmers than the day prior. Uh, so we raise heritage animals. We figured that if we were going to do this in a sustainable way, we wanted to rate those, raise those animals that have been around for literally hundreds of years. Frank: (02:58)And these are the ones that are, have fallen off of production. So we raise these animals in a way that we give back to the land that we wonderfully live on. And we wrote, we just created this community of really a fantastic way of having these animals on the land. We're learning from these animals and they really help let you make mistakes. That's the good news about a heritage animals that these heritage animals have been around for hundreds

Hey y'all! I wanted to quickly come on here to give you 5 tips to get better sleep THIS weekend. If you follow these things, they are sure to help!

We talk about these things on the podcast today:

Unconventional Wellness Radio missionSleep environment: bed for sleep and sexAlcohol and caffeine on sleepCreating a bedtime routine, putting devices to sleep too!Exercise and sleep

Enjoy - have a great weekend! And get that good sleep!

Hey everyone! We continue and complete the conversation with Jim Rohr, licensed acupuncturist (from Brooklyn, NY) and the author of Unlearning Stress!

Check out www.invitinginlove.com  - Jim's website for dating/coaching

And go see him at his practice: here

Enjoy! Have a great weekend!

Here are the show notes from today's podcast:

Intro:                            00:01                Hey everyone, and welcome to unconventional wellness radio, a powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's trying to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted.

Intro 2:                         00:17                Everyone and welcome back to part two of my conversation with Jim Rohr, licensed acupuncturist out of Brooklyn, New York, and also the author of unlearning stress. And we are going to dive further into what acupuncture is and how it may be a large benefit to you and possibly the key that you need to have improved. How so? Enjoy the rest of this podcast today and have a wonderful weekend.

Frank:                           00:45                And, uh, and I think even especially in today's Day and age, and this is on another soapbox that I'll go stand on elsewhere, but, um, you know, it's like, it's funny how will talk to one another and we're just simply say there's two magical words when we say, Hey Jim, have you been, oh, I'm so busy. Yeah. Like we don't really, we don't really just say I'm good or, you know, life is tough, but we're doing it. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. So it's always I'm busy. Like as if like I need to be reassured by you going to, Oh man, I totally get it. Exactly what you're saying. Like if I'm not busy, I'm apparently not doing what everybody else is doing. Right? Yeah. That glorification of being busy. It's like that's got to, we got to be done with that. Totally. And so like I said, there's a, there's a, there's a cool thing that we're doing right now to try to help explain people or explain to people that you can slow down.

Jim:                              01:39                It's okay. There's nothing wrong with actually taking up. Like our body

Hey everyone! Have you ever had questions about acupuncture, but were afraid to ask? Well, I bring my friend, Jim Rohr, author, acupuncturist, love coach, and volleyball buddy onto today's show!

Jim has been practicing Acupuncture since 2005 working in integrative health centers in Chicago and Miami Beach and is currently in private practice in Brooklyn, New York. In the last few years, he's expanded his presence to online coaching, helping single women working in healthcare up-level their love lives so they can attract amazing partners. His book is called Unlearning Stress and his podcast is called Pleasure Points. 

Find his book, Unlearning Stress here

Also check him out on his Podcast - Pleasure Points!

Here are the show notes for today:

Intro:                            00:01                Hey everyone and welcome to unconventional wellness radio, a powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's trying to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted.

Frank:                           00:16                All right. Hey everybody, this is frank. Uh, as you may be aware of, you are listening into unconventional wellness radio. We're also going to go ahead and live broadcast this to Facebook live because we want to make sure that you can see this strapping man right here. His name is Jim Rohr is a licensed and practicing acupuncturist. He actually is also, besides that, he's also a love coach. He's an author and a fellow podcaster. And what I had the pleasure of being able to meet Jim during our incentive trip with doterra essential oils down in Puerto Vallarta every time I say that by the way, I got to go. Lovely. Where co La Yard? No, like we're on a a like we're on a [inaudible] game show or something like that. When we were playing like press your luck cause they always gave out that for night, five days, stay in lovely parts of our yards.

Frank:                           01:07                Uh, but uh, but anyway, I met Jim, we actually, uh, I had the opportunity to play a lot of volleyball and then we just got to chatting about, uh, you know, what I'm calling unconventional wellness and what he's been doing since o five. And, uh, sort of like just, you know, you become like the best of friends and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, by the way, I also do this for a living. And so we had that just been a really great conversation and a, and be able to get to know one another up much better and figuring out what we're doing to really help people get the help that they deserve. And so he, uh, he started working in integrative health back in oh five, uh, with s

Hey everyone, thought it was time for us to talk about something critical to our health and out life: water!

On today's podcast, I discuss the top 10 chemicals and unwanted things in our drinking water.

Here is the short list:

Heavy metalsCombustion chemicalsFuel and Chlorineand others...

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Here are the show notes from today:

Frank:                           00:01                Hey everyone, and welcome to unconventional wellness radio. It's a powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's trying to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted. Hello and welcome to unconventional one. That's radio. I am your host, Frank Ritz. I am a certified pa, but more so I am a veteran of the United States army and a person who lives an unconventional wildness lifestyle every single day that I possibly can. And I want to share that with you. The purpose of this podcast, if you're listening for the first time, is that I want to go ahead and explore some of the things that are going on inside of our world and choices that we could be making in order to live the lifestyle that we have always wanted. And so the purpose of today's podcast is that we are going to talk about hidden perils that may be inside of your water supply.

Frank:                           00:58                You know, we take water for granted except for one it's missing or it's not even there. That's about the only time that we really care about water. Water is thankfully a very good commodity here in the United States. I cannot speak about the type of commodity that it is that it is around the world because there are unfortunately folks who are stricken with water shortages and they don't have access to clean water. There are a lot of really great agencies out there that are trying to deliver water to those people who absolutely needed, but for us folks in the United States, I would offer to you that we are very blessed with the water supply that we actually have. The problem is though is that along with other things, once we started making products and having these other manmade contraptions, we start unfortunately tainting at different things and it's this concept of robbing Peter to pay Paul and so today I wanted to talk about the top 10 different things that we can find in our water that may in fact actually be making you sick and so we're going to start off this list by saying that it is crucial that you consider drinking water from a source.

Frank:                           02:10                That is actually well tested. And so what I mean by

Hey everyone! This podcast episode is fresh and chock-full of goodies to help you get informed about cholesterol and how to get it healthy and working for you!

In this episode we discuss:

What is cholesterol and what are the functions in the bodyHow do we measure it? What do these labs help with?Some supplements that may help!

Enjoy!

Here are the show notes for today:

Frank:                           00:01                Hey everyone, and welcome to unconventional wellness radio a powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's trying to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted.

Frank:                           00:16                Hey, what's going on everybody? It's frank and I am here with unconventional wellness radio. And uh, before I start today, even though we're going to talk about maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, what I want to talk to you about is the program that we are getting ready to launch, hopefully within the next, I'm going to put myself on the spot right now. My goal is roughly four to six at the absolute worst eight weeks. I've realized that by recording all of the material that I want to bring for unconventional wellness is that unfortunately there's so much material that I want to make sure that I get it done the right way and it's just been like morphing into this thing that's like just in awesome.

Frank:                           01:01                I mean, honestly, I'm not just saying that, uh, I've been doing it with a couple of friends in terms of bouncing off ideas and bouncing off content of them and they actually think it's a really great thing. So bear with me, I am frantically recording the videos, getting the materials together. I'm going to have printable PDFs that are going to have notes on there. We're going to have some action plan steps and things like that that you'll be able to follow. And quite honestly, I really feel that this is going to be a pretty amazing thing for you to be able to step into the wellness lifestyle that you have always desired. We're going to talk about the core for a, I don't want to give out a ton of secrets, but we're going to talk about foundational things and I'm going to describe them in such a way to where it will hopefully be nice and super straight forward to you.

Frank:

Here are the numbers I talked about on the podcast if you are thinking about harming yourself. Do not delay call them now:

National Crisis Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Veterans Crisis Hotline: 800-273-8255 and press 1

Hey everyone, this podcast is an ironic one. I am currently sitting in my resort hotel room in Puerto Vallarta but received a call this week while here about a new friend that has committed suicide.

I met her while she came to our church to become a new member. I had fabulous conversations with her, including discussing her upcoming baptism. Nonetheless, I never saw the pain and struggles she had in her life to end it abruptly.

Most of the time, we never do. We assume all is well becuase we don't ask the questions. Well, I want you to know: YOU ARE WORTH IT. You deserve to life a long and happy life.

I have often said: suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Think about that: you can get the help that you need to get through your struggles. Talk about your story, get counseling - there is hope!

Hey everyone! Enjoy this latest podcast on my personal journey to recover from the symptoms of PTSD!

DISCLAIMER: Do not think that you can immediately stop your medications or treatment. Seek first your physician to discuss options before starting any new recommendations. I do not seek to cure, prevent, treat, or diagnose your condition. This podcast is for informational purposes only.

I discuss my personal journey in wellness to support my symptoms of PTSD due to my military service. You are NOT ALONE! We can create a network of people to support each other in life after trauma!

Please enjoy this podcast.

Here are the show notes:

Frank:                           00:00                Hey everyone and welcome to unconventional wellness radio is powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It's trying to put you in the driver's seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you've always wanted. Hey, what's going on Y'all? This is frank, rinse certified PA and the creator of this podcast, unconventional wellness radio. And today I wanted to talk on this podcast with you about a protocol or what the protocol is that what I do in order to be able to support my life with ptsd. So if you look back at past episodes, I have a podcast that is called the veteran's story. A combat veteran tells a story. And what that is, is that is a very long podcast, but it's because I laid out the entire situation and everything that was going on with me that related to my ptsd.

Frank:                           00:58                But I'll give you the highlights here. You are very welcome to go check that previous podcast for all of those details, uh, of my story. But the long short is that I served in the US army for quite some time and I was a, uh, I was deployed to the Middle East and there was multiple events that had happened while I was on that deployment. But one of which is that I stepped on a pressure plate ied. And fortunately I'm here to tell you that it did not explode. Now, there were some other events that had happened as well while I was on that deployment. But my life going into Iraq was absolutely not the same as when I came out of it. And so now since I have been retired from the service, I was medically retired in about 2013. And so for the past couple of years I've had the pleasure of trying to learn how to live life with trauma in my experiences.

Frank:                           01:56                And how do I relate as a civilian. So I just want to let you know, bottom line up front, there is absolutely no way that you are in this alone. I want you to know that as a person who has been able to overcome and support a lot of the symptoms that I have becau

Hey ya'll! I am excited for the this podcast! I have the pleasure of having Dr. Jack Wolfson, board certified Cardiologist and author of the book, The Paleo Cardiologist: The Natural Way to Heart Health!

His wife and him have a wonderful website: The Drs Wolfson where they share great information about health including great chiropractic care!

On today's podcast, we discuss the following:

Dr. Wolfson's book and my personal testimony about implementing his strategies in my own lifeDr Wolfson gives his journey to practicing holistic medicine as a board-certified CardiologistWe discuss his book and common misconceptions about cardio healthDiscussion of his recent talk on the Keto SummitLastly, Dr. Wolfson discusses his supplement strategies and his 10 guidelines for optimizing health

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Hey everyone, Frank here for today's podcast! I think you are really going to like this one - it is about 10 superfoods that I use daily and recommend that you may be missing out on!

We discuss the following superfoods:

Chlorella

Spirulina

Wheatgrass

Moringa

Baobab

Matcha Tea

Lemon

Beets (and Beetroot)

Cacao!

Plus, there may be some additional foods that I talk about on this podcast! You will have to listen to see what they are!

Have a great day!